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1.Down and out and all alone nobody wants you and
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nobody knows Just go down to the local park
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plenty of company after dark
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Market day you'll get a chance make a dollar make a dance
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clapstick in your hands You gotta sing in the long grass band
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|1. ||2,3,4.
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You can't be sacked in this land
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When ya play in the long grass band Spread a blanket in the shade
|F#m | |A | |E |
Make a dollar anyway Guitar didge shake a leg Make a tourist
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|1,2. |
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come and beg clapstick in your hands You gotta sing in the long grass band
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long grass band You can't be sacked in this land
|E | |B | |
When ya play in the long grass band Spread a blanket in the shade
|F#m | |A | |E |
Make a dollar anyway Guitar didge shake a leg Make a tourist
| |B | |F#m | |
come and beg clapstick in your hands You gotta sing in the long grass band
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|1. ||2.
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You You gotta gig in the long grass band
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You gotta play in the long grass band
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You gotta dance in the long grass band Long grass
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long grass band...
2.Live outdoors you live on your wits
Get used up but you learn some tricks
Go to jail for unpaid fines
Get arrested for sleepin in the daytime
policeman he come in his van
Slip away like you can
Market day you will dance
You gotta gig in the long grass band
3.Instrumental
4.Might be Katherine, might be Broome,
Might be Darwin, or Jabiru
Nobody knows what you know
When you go where the wind blows
Policeman he come in his van
Slip away like you can
Market day you will dance
You gotta gig in the long grass band
I haven't worked out the exact riff Neil plays in the verses, but here's the basic chord structure!
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1.You went out west and thought you had it made Got
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tangled up with a mongrel wife and paid Came back east and
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found yourself a hole That's par for the course mate you should
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know If we go down if we go down we'll go
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|1. |
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down with beer in our hands // / 2.This
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|2.
|Em | |G | |D | |
hands And if we go down if we go down we'll go
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|A | |Em | | | |
down with beer in our hands
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|A |G |Em | |A |
// Don't really care what you have to say // We just wanna
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know can ya play? Well ya should have been here yesterday
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hands And if we go
|G | |D | |A | |
down if we go down we'll go down with beer in our
|Em | |G | |D | |
hands And if we go down if we go down we'll fall
|A | |Em | |G | |
down with beer in our hands And if we go down if we go
|D | |A | |Em | |
down we'll go down with beer in our hands
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// /
2.This land was built with grog and guts and guns
It wasn't pretty but that's how it was done
Don't go trying to tell us what went wrong
Or you can piss off back to where it was you're from
3.Now only pretenders are in to their own fame
There's nothing worse than a wanker in the game
Isn't it time you paid for a shout?
Tomorrow? Tomorrow - we don't know about
|F |C |Am |G |F |C |Am |G |
|F |C |Am |G |F |C |
I saw you to-day out on the hill You were with your Mother
|Am |G |F |C |Am |G |
time stood still I was riding by you didn't see me
|F |C |Am |G |F |Am |
I saw your hair move with the breeze Circum-stances
|C |G |F |Am |C |G |F |Am |
keep us a-part Circum-stances can be hard Circum-stances
|F |C |Am |G |F |C |
against our will But I want you to know I love you still
|Am | |C | |F | C |F | G |
|F |C |Am |G |F |C |
Sometimes you cry in the night Where is your Daddy?
|Am |G |F |Am |C |G |
Where is the light? Sometimes I dream I'm holding you tight.
|F |Am |C |G |F |Am |C |
Circum-stances leave their mark Circum-stances tear at our
|G |F |Am |F |C |Am |G |
hearts Circum-stances against our will But I want you to know I
|F |C |G | |F |C |Am |
love you still Don't you cry don't you fear Just think of
|G |F |C |G | |F |
me and I'll be near I know one day I'm gonna see you
|C |Am |G |F |C |Am | |
right Walking to me with eyes of light
|C | |F | C |F | G |F |C |
In a park
|Am |G |F |C |Am |G |
or out on the beach In a shopping mall just out of reach
|F |C |Am |G |F |C |
I'm one of those men working on the road I'm that cyclist
|Am |G |F |Am |C |G |F |
riding home Circum-stances keep us a-part Circum-
|Am |C |G |F |Am |F |C |
stances can be hard Circum-stances against our will
|Am |G |F |C |G | |
But I want you to know I love you still Don't you cry
|F |C |Am |G |F |C |
don't you fear Just think of me and I'll be near
|G | |F |C |Am |G |
I know one day I'm gonna see you right Walking to me with
|F |C |Am | |C | |F |
eyes of light
| C |F | G |Am | |C | |
|F | C |F | G ||
|C | |G | |Dm | |F |
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Sometimes I'm taken a long way from home Thats when I'm shaken
| |F | |C | |
need to get you on the phone to tell you I treasure every
|G | |Dm | |F |
stone flower and feather you ever gave me in your own sweet way
| |C | |G | |
And nothing can change the way I feel about you Loving
|Dm | |F | |C |
me and me loving you It's here in my heart
| |G | |Dm | |
let the light shine on you You know I'll always be over the
|F | |C | |G | |
moon When you're with me
|Dm | |F | |C | |
I feel bigger than my-self When you call me
|G | |Dm | |F |
When you call me you know I drop everything else
| |C | |G | |
Cause nothing can change the way I feel about you Loving
|Dm | |F | |C |
me and me loving you It's here in my heart
| |G | |Dm | |
let the light shine on you You know I'll always be over the
|F | |C | |G | |
moon Sometimes I wonder
|Dm | |F | |C |
Where I might be if you weren't there Well I
| |G | |Dm | |
wouldn't have an anchor I'd just be drifting in thin
|F | |C | |G |
air When you're in motion I'm moving too
| |Dm | |F |
Whenever you're rolling I'm rolling too
| |C | |G | |
And nothing can change the way I feel about you Loving
|Dm | |F | |C |
me and me loving you It's here in my heart
| |G | |Dm | |
let the light shine on you Forever and ever over the
|F | |C | |G |
moon I wanna be the ground for you to grow from
| |Dm | |F | |
and I'll be the trees for you to climb high on It's here in my
|C | |G | |Dm |
heart let the light shine on you Forever and ever
| |F | ||:C | |
we're over the moon
Rpt ad lib
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| E |C#m |A |E |A |E |B | E |
|C#m |A |E |B |A |E |B | E |
Into the
|C#m |A |E |A |E |
night I lean a dumped man since she left me waiting without a
|B | E |C#m |A |E |A |
clue What can I do when she can't say words of love blow a-
|E |B | |A |E |A |
way in the wind I'll take a boat to the sea let the breeze carry
|B |A |E |B | E |
me far a-way from the shore where she will be It'll be too
|C#m |A |C#m |B |E |
late for re-prieve or rescue or please I'll be gone across the
|B |A | |E |B |A |
waves out of reach I'll be gone out of reach
| E |C#m |A |E |A E |C#m |A |
|E |B |A |E |B | |A |
Well I hope she can
|E |A |B |A |E |B | E |
see how I tried to be the best man for her for a while Into the
|C#m |A |E |A |E |B |
light I'll see her waiting patient-ly through long lonely nights far a-
|A | E |C#m |A |C#m |
way And I'll wonder and dream of her and what could have
|B |E |B |A | |E |
been if we hadn't got so far out of reach If we hadn't got so
|B |A | E |C#m |A |E |B E |
far out of reach
|C#m |A |E |B |A |E |A |E |
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|E |A |E | |A | |
|E | |B |A |E | |
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1.Make up your mind sweet-heart before I hit town
|A | |E | |
Make up your mind sweet-heart before I hit town
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|1-8. |
|B |A |E | :||
If you want me you got me if you don't let me down
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|9.
|A N.C. (Free time)
heart Maybe in the next life you'll stay
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2.I got a mobile phone so I won't miss your call
I got a mobile phone so I won't miss your call
We got the technology but I can't read you at all
3.You haven't arrived and I'm travellin still
It seems you haven't arrived and I'm travellin still
How come we know Chicago before Broken Hill?
4.I heard a rumour you said I was to blame
I heard a rumour you said I was to blame
Well Bob Dylan told me to never drop names
5.You're taking sweets from strangers, you know that it's wrong.
You're taking sweets from strangers, you know that it's wrong.
Well that wouldn't happen honey if you'd taken me along.
6,7.Instrumental
8.I'm over the hill and I'm down the mountain side
I'm over the hill and I'm down the mountain side
Even if you wanted me now I couldn't give you a ride
9.Last thing you told me, you said you'd see me one day
Last thing you ever told me you said you'd see me one day
Well that's just fine sweetheart, maybe in the next life you'll stay
|G |C |G | |G |C |G | |
1.I'm
||:G |C |G | |
high on a hill looking over a small town I see
|G | |D | |
trucks roll in and trucks roll out I'm
|Am |C |Em | |
somewhere in south west WA Never
|D |C |G |Em |
been here before may never be a-gain
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|1,2,4,5. ||3.
|Dadd9 |C :||C |Am |
High________ on a
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|Em |D |C |Am |
hill It's quiet and still If you get a clear
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||6.
|Em |D |C :||C |
day You can see a long way As they leave
|G |Em |D |C |
town As they leave
|G |Em |D |C |Am |
town High________ on a
|Em |D |C |Am |
hill It's quiet and still If you get a clear
|Em |D |C | |
day You can see a long way
|G |Em |D |C |G |
|Em |D |C |G |Em |
|D |C |G ||
2.People have been kind I've been fed and I've been watered
I've been given a place to stay up this hill in single quarters
I'm thinking of walking down to the town but it's hard to walk up again
So I sit here with the birds watching me, watching them
3.Shadows creep on the hillside a crow flies hard to the west
Wish I could be that certain of where to go next
Big old jarrah tree is holding up the sky
His trunk's a storehouse of years gone by
4.Lights come on in the valley, good people are in their homes
Loving wives and husbands laughing at their children's jokes
I'm up here in the trees high above it all
I'm holdin' a guitar strumming a few chords
5.There's women who've passed me by and there's those I've set free
I don't know if any of 'em could've changed me
I wonder if my children know I'm alive
I wish I had 'em with me, God knows I tried
6.I'm a long way from where I was born but I'm closer to my grave
Just when I'll leave here I cannot say
I hear the distant sound of a car slowing down
I hear them speed up again as they leave town